Reimagining Institutional Research Training

Reimagining Human Research Protections for 21st Century Science

BACKGROUND Evolving research practices and new forms of research enabled by technological advances require a redesigned research oversight system that respects and protects human research participants. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to generate creative ideas for redesigning our current human research oversight system. METHODS A total of 11 researchers and institutional review board (IRB) prof...

’ s institutional research repository

’ s institutional research repository

Tobacco smoking, a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, cancer and other diseases, 1 is estimated to cost the australian community $31.5 billion per annum, 2 and was responsible for more than 15 500 australian deaths in 2003. 3 Overall, Australian smoking rates have declined since the 1950s, with daily smoking among patients aged 18 years and over d...

Institutional research misconduct.

It is now more than 18 months since the UK’s General Medical Council found AndrewWakefield guilty of dishonesty and other serious professional misconduct; and it is nearly a year since the BMJ concluded that his now retracted Lancet paper linking the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism and bowel disease was an “elaborate fraud.” 3 At that time, January 2011, we called on Wakef...

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